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To: American Spirit who wrote (66545)	3/31/2002 9:49:17 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

"If this continues expect PALM at $15." And all this time I thought "American Spirit" was your screen name, ... not something you were smoking.

To: American Spirit who wrote (66545)	3/31/2002 11:33:46 PM
From: Dave	Respond to of 74651

Perhaps Palm's defense against a Microsoft takeover was its release of Palm OS as Open Source. Microsoft couldn't stomach owning an open-source OS. Besides, mark this prediction: within five years, both Palm and Microsoft will soon be squeezed handily from the PDA market by much cheaper but much more powerful Linux PDAs. A friend of mine has one of the Sharp Linux PDAs and simply raves about it. He goes into Starbucks with it and surfs the web over their 802.11, hosts an Apache web site on it (not a serious one, but still...), runs his email, and so on. And the Sharp Linux PDA is just the first one. There will be many others. Dave